radiocarbon, coprolites, archaeologists, mesolithic, middle paleolithic, archeologists, geochronology, potsherds, aurignacian, prehistory, microfossils, papyri, fossils, neolithic age, bronze age, upper paleolithic, isotopic, archeopteryx, fossilized, excavations, palaeontological, acheulian, paleoecology, paleolithic age, paleontologists, datable, megafauna, cosmogenic, anthropologists, coprolite, neandertal, carboniferous period, paleobiology, habilis, archeology, fossilised, genetic fingerprinting, osteologist, prehistoric, ostracods, flints, iron age, hominoid, eratosthenes, pliocene, paranthropus, sedimentology, mousterian, paleoclimatology, archaeopteryx, mammoths, sauropod dinosaur, middens, palaeontologist, spectroscopic analysis, columbian mammoth, crinoid, palaeo, lithic, geomorphology, braincase, adzes, dendrochronology, chalcolithic, phylogenies, eocene epoch, palaeontology, cambrian period, petrography, stegodon, australopithecus afarensis, neolithic, holocene epoch, excavated, iguanodon, homo heidelbergensis, archeological, olduvai, mummification, tetrapod, woolly rhinoceros, ossuaries, hadrosaur, ancient, jurassic period, devonian period, etruscans, conodonts, lower paleolithic, neogene, homo erectus, archaeo, olduvai gorge, paleocene, anthropoids, hominids, essenes, cenozoic era, stalagmite, ichthyosaur, chondritic, sumerians

chemical analysis, qualitative analysis

carbon-14 dating, carbon dating